From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Tue Aug 10 12:12:50 2010 Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:08:13 +0300 From: George Nakos X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <17510596634.20100810190814@thebat.net> To: mint Subject: Re: [MiNT] XaAES Gradients In-Reply-To: References: <5499E7FB-67C6-4E2E-A139-3F16E5D82C2D@gmail.com> <4C5F161A.3010308@online.no> <4C605356.4050105@online.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: ggn@thebat.net Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.sparemint.org id o7AGCnV8026600 Hello Paul, Monday, August 9, 2010, 10:59:57 PM, you wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:13 AM, Jo Even Skarstein wrote: >> On 08/09/2010 01:58 PM, Paul Wratt wrote: >> >>>> This sounds like a real hack. Why go to all this trouble? it will only >>>> make it impossible for atleast 95% of all users to modify the gradients >>>> themselves. >>>> >>>> I have not studied how the gradients works in XaAES, but how complex can >>>> it be? A gradient consists of a starting colour, a finishing colour and >>>> a direction. That's it. It can easily be defined in xaaes.cnf if necessary. >>>> >>>> Jo Even >>>> >>> this is the point of why the gradients should added >> >> No, this is why they shouldn't at this stage. Configuration by >> copy/paste in source files is... well.. a hack. >> > So your saying that people should not be allows access to related > information because no one has implemented in code or a config loader? No, he says what he's written. It's a hack. We all think so. Enough said. -- Best regards, George mailto:ggn@thebat.net